THE PROBLEMS OF THE HISTORIAN’S LANGUAGE IN POSTMODERNISM

Abstract

The article briefly analyzes the problem of correlation between historical and artistic comprehension of reality. The investigated aspect of the problem is the place and role of the language in historical research on the basis of the views of postmodernism representatives in the United States and Western European countries historiography of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The theoretical basis for the analysis is the thesis of history as a science, and not a synthesis of scientific and artistic principles, and with the decisive role of the latter. Another basis for the analysis is the principle of objective knowledge, incompatible with the thesis of the pluralism of truths, as the norm of the results of cognition. The work briefly analyzes the views of individual postmodernism representatives, including Н. White, the most famous of them. The analysis of this problem has a creative and specific historical significance, including the field of teaching the university course "Theory and Methodology of History."